Hillary, Obama donor arrested for fraud
by Ed Morrissey, HOT AIR:
Maybe Barack Obama can’t choose administration officials competently, but Hillary Clinton would not have been much better. For the second time, a major fundraiser for Hillary finds himself under arrest for fraud. Hassan Nemazee also raised money for Obama’s presidential run ($500,000) and at one time chaired the finance committee for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee when Chuck Schumer ran it:
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Glenn Beck boycott falters, despite liberal media claims
Kathy Shaidle, Examiner:
Glenn Beck returned to his usual FOX News time slot yesterday at 5PM EST. As AP reports, he’s back on the air, but “with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.”But as I’ve reported here, you can’t rely on the mainstream media to tell you the full story. And you certainly can’t trust the likes of the Huffington Post. I could have spent all day yesterday DM’ing Twitterers with handles like “@stopglen” (sic), who can’t stop crowing about the “boycott”, and spreading half-truths around the web.
So let’s review, shall we?
Glenn Beck Closing in on Van Jones
By Cliff Kincaid, AIM:
“Is Glenn Beck finished?” is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck’s Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama’s green-jobs czar.
Not coincidentally, Beck has repeatedly singled out Van Jones for criticism, citing evidence of his communist past. The source of this evidence is New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, the same researcher who originally unearthed the fact that Obama’s mysterious mentor “Frank” in Obama’s book Dreams from My Father was Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We confirmed that identification with a separate source and ran with the story last year, even obtaining the 600-page FBI file on Davis. It also came out that Davis was a sex pervert, doper, and pornographer.
The Obama campaign eventually confirmed Frank’s identity but tried to play down his relationship with Obama. Most media gave the scandal a ho-hum.
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Cheney Statement on CIA Documents/Investigation
Dick Cheney, Weekly Standard:
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President Obama’s decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security
TURKEY: MURDER DEFENDANT AGAIN ADMITS PERJURY
Compass Direct News:
Turkish murder suspect Emre Gunaydin admitted in court last week that he had again committed perjury in the trial over the savage murders of three Christians in southeast Turkey.
Gunaydin, 21, faced off in Malatya’s Third Criminal Court on Friday (Aug. 21) with Varol Bulent Aral, whom he had named as one of the instigators of the attack at Zirve Publishing Co.’s Malatya office in a previous disposition before state prosecutors. Gunaydin, the alleged ringleader of the murderers, told the court that he had lied in a previous disposition before state prosecutors by implicating Aral.
“I named Varol Bulent Aral to reduce the sentence,” Gunaydin said under questioning.
His admission came after Aral testified at length, painting an elaborate scenario of himself as a key player in the “Ergenekon” conspiracy – said to include top level political and security officials, among others – suspected of orchestrating the 2007 Malatya attack with Gunaydin and four other defendants.
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Obama’s Human Rights Disaster
By: Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a deputy national security adviser in the Bush administration.
FP: Elliott Abrams, welcome to Frontpage Interview.I would like to talk to you today about America’s human rights policy under Obama.
What is Obama’s human rights policy exactly? The recent visit to the U.S. of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was kind of illuminating in this context, yes?
Abrams: It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal– and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.
In the Middle East, for example, they have decided to go for an Israeli-Palestinian deal at all costs. That means our relations with Egypt (and Saudi Arabia, Syria, etc.) are all about Israeli-Palestinian matters, not about Egypt itself as a country. Human rights and democracy in Egypt become a small issue, a side issue.
The Mubarak visit was illuminating, as was the President’s choice of Cairo to give his speech a few months ago, for Obama pretty much forgot about freedom. He did not utter the word (or words like democracy, human rights, free elections) sitting there next to Mubarak at the White House. Democracy activists in Egypt have been abandoned.
Clinton’s remarks about China are another example. Mitchell’s visits to Syria are yet another: dead silence about human rights, smiles at dictators. That’s the norm.
FP: What are the consequences of this lack of a human rights policy?
Abrams: There are four major ones.
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New Ice Age could be coming
Lawrence Solomon, NP:
Earth could soon be entering a new Ice Age, according to scientists at Oregon State University and other institutions, in a study to b e released this week by Science magazine.
“Sometime around now, scientists say, the Earth should be changing from a long interglacial period that has lasted the past 10,000 years and shifting back towards conditions that will ultimately lead to another ice age – unless some other forces stop or slow it,” states a release from Oregon State University.
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Cool …
Dr. Obama and the Hypocrite’s Oath
By Monte Kuligowski, AT:
President Obama’s preferred method of implementing his leftist agenda is to rush emergency, must-sign-yesterday bills through Congress. Forget about reading the legislation. Just trust Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and Barney Frank with the details.The problem with this method is that when the details finally come out, it’s too late for the people to do anything about it. President Obama’s preferred method naturally fosters frustration and anger. Due to the economic “crisis,” Obama and the far left element of the Democrat Party had to pass an emergency stimulus spending plan before anyone had time to read it. Afterwards, the public learned that the bulk of the emergency bill to save the economy in 2009 would not be implemented until 2010 and beyond. As the public learns of the legislation’s massive waste and cronyism it is becoming apparent that the so-called stimulus was more about stimulating the power of the left than the economy.
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Well on our way down the ‘Road to Serfdom’
Ed Lasky, AT:
President Obama’s has no experience in the business world and has an antipathy towards capitalism and free enterprise. His Cabinet choices share in his ignorance of business-none of them have real world business experience. His various czars also have resumes shorn of operating experience in the real world. Now comes two news items that reveal even more that his true agenda is to place the levers of power in our society into the hands of left-wingers who share his views.
He has chosen a leader in the AFL-CIO union to be head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank-easily the most important position among the 12 regional Fed banks. John Hilsenrath of the Wall Street Journal has the details:
Wait. The White House is behind the Glenn Beck boycott?
Don Surber:
Whoa.
Move over Richard Nixon.
President Barack Obama has surpassed him as the most partisan president in my lifetime.
An environmental adviser on Obama’s payroll was behind that campaign to get advertisers to boycott Glenn Beck’s TV show, the Los Angeles Times reported.
On a blog.
This would be front-page news with Matt Drudge siren if Karl Rove had tried to pull a stunt like this.
Instead, rather nonchalantly, Matea Gold reported: “Fox News host Glenn Beck used his popular show Monday to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental adviser and co-founder of an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.”
What?
The man is on the public payroll and he is trying to silence a critic of his boss?
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How much longer will Americans tolerate these Brownshirt tactics?
H/T: AT
Hamas is leading Palestine down the road of carnage
By Ron Prosor, Telegraph [UK]:
Earlier this month, Hamas launched a devastating bombardment of rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire against a mosque in Rafah. The attack killed at least 22 Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl. Over 100 more were injured and the mosque, which belonged to a rival Islamist faction, the Jund Ansar Allah, was left riddled with bullets. The adjacent building was destroyed. Yet Hamas’s disregard for the sanctity of a house of worship, and its contempt for the lives of neighbouring civilians, is unlikely to be the subject of any probing reports from Human Rights Watch.
It is no surprise to see Hamas brutalising the Palestinian population as it tightens its vice-like grip over Gaza. After all, it seized control of the territory in a bloody coup against the Palestinian Authority in June 2007, murdering rivals and hurling PA officials from the rooftops. Subsequently, it has ruthlessly and violently crushed any potential challenge to its power, whether from the Palestinian nationalists of Fatah, or from rival terrorist groups within the Islamist fold.
Meanwhile, it has imposed Gaza’s rapid descent into fanatical freefall.
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Obama’s Big Bang could go bust
POLITICO:
Barack Obama’s Big Bang is beginning to backfire, as his plans for rapid, once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation and health care are running into stiff resistance, both in Washington and around the country.
The Obama theory was simple, though always freighted with risk: Use a season of economic anxiety to enact sweeping changes the public likely wouldn’t stomach in ordinary times. But the abrupt swing in the public’s mood, from optimism about Obama’s possibility to concern he may be overreaching, has thrown the White House off its strategy and forced the president to curtail his ambitions.
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Krauthammer’s Take
NRO:
From Friday’s Fox News All-Stars.
On the Obama administration adjusting the estimated ten-year deficit up from $7 trillion to $9 trillion:
That is why the word “trillion” ought to be abolished. It does not have the gravitas — the enormity — of the numbers, of the zeros underlying it.
This is a huge increase in the deficit. And if you think of it, this is an estimate over a decade, which means that the annual [deficit] will be nearly $1 trillion. It will be $900 million every year for ten years, which is unsustainable.
It will destroy the dollar. The only way that kind of debt is paid off is not in taxes. It is in inflation. And everyone will see it coming. It will raise interest rates.
This is a crisis in and of itself. And one of the reasons health care is in trouble — there are a lot of reasons — but one of them is Americans understand that when you are looking at [health-care] deficits which are…adding $1 trillion or $1.6 trillion, as the CBO has estimated in the Senate plan, adding that onto it gratuitously is insane.
If there are any increases in taxes — that you’re going to use within health care — those increases in taxes or reductions in spending ought to be to the existing deficit, which will destroy the economy.
On Pelosi and Hoyer’s contradictory statements on the necessity of a public option:
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